Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester
- Born: 16 Jan 1244-1245
- Marriage: Blanche of Artois on 29 Oct 1276 in Paris, France
- Died: 5 Jun 1296, Bayonne, France at age 52
- Buried: 15 Jul 1296, Westminster Abbey, London, England
 Research Notes:
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 17-28
Wikipedia:
"...soon after the forfeiture of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester in 1265, Edmund received the Earldom of Leicester and of Lancaster and also the honour of the Stewardship of England and the lands of Nicolas de Segrave.
"In 1271 he accompanied his elder brother Edward [I Longshanks] on the Ninth Crusade to Palestine. It was because of this he received the nickname Crouchback (or cross back) indicating that he was entitled to wear a cross on his back."
Much more info in Wikipedia & other sources.
Edmund married Blanche of Artois, daughter of Count Robert I "the Good" of Artois and Matilda of Brabant, on 29 Oct 1276 in Paris, France. (Blanche of Artois was born between 1245 and 1250 and died on 2 May 1302 in Paris, France.)
Marriage Notes:
Wikipedia has m. 3 Feb 1276
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